i need firt literature review for this thesis topic :
The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 allows countries to set their own emissions reduction targets in
the form of “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs) and is formally non-punitive, meaning that
countries do not face any sanctions for non-compliance. The approach adopted in the Paris Agreement
is often described as one acknowledging the primacy of domestic politics (Falkner 2016). This puts a
special focus on the question of how characteristics of domestic political institutions shape the
ambition and credibility of NDC pledges. Of major interest in this context is the effect of democracy,
which is the topic of this Master thesis. The idea is to empirically investigate this question using two
sources of data: (1) a unique dataset of views by climate policy experts (Victor et al. 2022) and (2)
ratings on a range of climate policy performance indicators published by “Climate Action Tracker”
(Boehm et al. 2022) and “Germanwatch” (Burck et al. 2022). To answer the research question using
these data sets, it will be necessary to first add additional data from other sources (e.g., democracy
indices) and then perform descriptive and econometric analyses. The basis for the empirical analysis
should be a careful literature analysis that reviews both theoretical and empirical literature on the
interplay between democracy and how a country performs with respect to environmental and climate
policy.